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With the new round of questions about whether William Shakespeare was a literary impostor, brought on by the movie Anonymous, I thought it was time to go back and ask Justice Scalia what he thought.

Scalia, who uses literature and lyrics to make his legal points, often quotes from Shakespeare. I recall in his first term he invoked lines from Henry the Fourth, Part I, as he dissented in an affirmative action case from Santa Clara County, California:

Glendower: I can call Spirits from the vasty Deep.

Hotspur: Why so can I, or so can any man. But will they come when you do call for them?

I was so struck by the number of important decisions Justice Scalia wrote this term that I asked Justice Ginsburg about his record when I interviewed her this week. (Here’s the news story covering other topics.)

This weekend when I was clearing out book shelves, trying to make room for new volumes, I discovered a little book about Arizona’s distinctive state Capitol and copper dome. I had bought it years ago when I was researching Sandra Day O’Connor. I believed her tenure as a state senator in the 1970s was critical to understanding the justice who so skillfully counted votes among the brethren, and I had gathered all I could find about Arizona state politics and the legislature during her time there. I somehow found even the architecture of the Capitol intriguing.

I got a message last week that said: “Antonin Scalia is now following you on Twitter!” Despite our many years of interaction, I suspected this Scalia wasn’t the real one. I know he has an iPad and is pretty digital for a 75-year-old who works in the cloister of the Marble Palace. But he’s no Justice Stephen Breyer, who has a Twitter account –although Breyer does call it the “tweeter thing”.

Justice Scalia lost it Monday in Michigan v. Bryant. As the majority ruled that a gunshot victim’s dying words to police could be used at trial against the alleged shooter, Scalia erupted. “[T]oday’s decision is not only a gross distortion of the facts. It is a gross distortion of the law—a revisionist narrative … at least where emergencies and faux emergencies are concerned.”

The majority opinion, written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, said the victim’s statements identifying defendant Richard Perry Bryant – as the victim bled in a gas station parking lot — were made in an emergency situation and not “testimonial.” So allowing them at trial did not violate the Sixth Amendment’s Confrontation Clause, which guarantees that a defendant may confront his accuser.

In the first chapter of Stanley Fish’s new book, “How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One,” he extols a sentence from Scalia’s dissent in Lee v. Weisman, the 1992 case in which the majority said prayer at a Providence, R.I., middle school graduation violated the required separation of church and state. Fish notes that the Court majority referred to the “psychological coercion” of students in attendance, and he continues, “This was too much for Justice Scalia, who, after citing a fellow jurist’s complaint that establishment clause jurisprudence was becoming so byzantine that it was in danger of becoming a form of interior decorating, got off this zinger: ‘Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.’”

Antonin Scalia, past and present, had a starring role at today’s Supreme Court arguments in Federal Communications Commission v. AT&T. And I couldn’t help but be reminded of Scalia’s past views on the Freedom of Information Act, views definitely off-stage.

As I explain in this article, the FCC was appealing a lower court decision that would allow corporations to claim a “personal privacy” exemption under the FOIA law intended to make government more transparent. That exemption traditionally has been given only to individuals for potentially embarrassing situations.

All week, since California Lawyerreported (and Huffington Post widely circulated) Justice Scalia’s remarks in an interview that the Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment doesn’t protect women from discrimination, I’ve been getting calls from reporters and other Court watchers asking: Is this new? Are you shocked? The answers are no and no. This is vintage — archaic — Scalia. And it’s important to note that this is one area of the law in which Scalia has been unpersuasive and alone.

For decades and with votes by other conservative justices, the Supreme Court has said the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection covers women. This is not a close call.

As criticism of capital punishment is up in some quarters and use of the death penalty continues to decline nationally, Justice Scalia remains a vigorous voice for carrying out state executions.

This week he dissented from a high-court order favoring an Alabama murderer whose death sentence had been set aside by lower federal courts. The justices by 6-to-3 rejected a petition from Alabama officials protesting a new sentencing hearing for James Charles Lawhorn, who with his brother had killed their aunt’s boyfriend in 1988, in exchange for $100 from the aunt.

Very few people have been able to convince Justice Scalia to buy a novel argument or take a new turn. Jim Lynn was one of them. I was reminded of that today when I saw the obituary for James T. Lynn in the Washington Post. During the Nixon administration, Lynn had been undersecretary in the Commerce Department and secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. When President Ford took office, Lynn became director of the Office of Management and Budget. The Post described Lynn as having a “voracious appetite for work” and “scalpel-sharp intellect.”